Steven High

Steven High is the co-founder of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University in Montreal. Originally from Thunder Bay, he is the author of Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America’s Rust Belt (2003), Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization (2007, with David W. Lewis), The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places (2017, with Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew Perchard), and One Job Town: Work, Belonging and Betrayal in Northern Ontario (2018). He has also written several books on the experiences of Montrealers displaced by war, genocide and other human rights violations.

Experience

–present

Professor of History, Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS), Concordia University